Planned sex education about parenting trivializes abstinence and promotes prostitution

Pro-life and Christian advocacy groups are exposing what they see as the dangers of Planned Parenthood’s sex education program, which is designed to be taught to children under the age of 10. The pro-life group American Life League has shared its curriculum toolkit, which outlines the important information teachers need to provide to their students for “comprehensive sex education” (CSE). For children under 10, some of the “key lessons” include attractions for people with “diverse gender identities,” sexual activity is found in a variety of relationships such as marriage, dating and sex work, and touching your body for pleasure should be done in privacy. . The curriculum also states that teaching children to abstain until marriage is “unrealistic” because “not everyone will choose to marry, and many countries have restrictions on who can marry (for example, members of same-sex relationships).”

“Public schools are giving the organization that killed nearly 393,000 newborn children through abortion in 2023 unfettered access to thousands of elementary, middle and high school students in their classrooms and spending taxpayer dollars to do so,” said Katie Brown, American Life National Director of the League. The group also highlighted Planned Parenthood’s abortion curriculum for schools, which encourages students to be advocates for abortion access and describes abortion as a common medical procedure. In the CSE, children under 10 have an activity titled ‘Walking in Her Shoes: The Decision to Terminate a Pregnancy’ to discuss why women and girls undergo abortions. American Life League believes that Planned Parenthood promotes a promiscuous lifestyle to line its own pockets with the money for abortions resulting from unwanted pregnancies.

Writing for Live Action, former sex worker Bettina di Flore criticized the promotion of sex work in the curriculum. “As a former prostitute and someone who cares deeply about children, I find this idea deeply objectionable. I know from personal experience that the world of so-called ‘commercial sex work’ is based on exploitation and devoid of true happiness – a world that no one who has the legitimate interests of children at heart should want to promote or even condone in the face of this people. innocents,” di Flore wrote. “The simple fact that there is sex does not mean that there is real intimacy. “Intimacy” is defined as “a close, trusting, and usually affectionate or loving personal relationship with another person.” “There can be no real closeness or familiarity in a relationship where the people involved usually don’t even know each other’s real names,” she later added. Michele Hendrickson, executive director of Students for Life of America, shared The Christian Post that it is important that parents are aware of what is being taught in their children’s schools. “The most important thing you can do is be active in your school board,” she says. “These are open meetings for a reason; they want to hear it from parents.”